MUSIC: Run the Jewels 4: Incredible album. A ton of wisdom. It became my go-to running album after just one listen. This album does mix some old school beats, and takes America to task; holding nothing back.
“And everyday on evening news they feed you fear for free
And you so numb you watch the cops choke out a man like me
And ’til my voice goes from a shriek to whisper, “I can’t breathe”
And you sit there in the house on couch and watch it on TV
The most you give’s a Twitter rant and call it a tragedy” – Walking In the Snow
“Amazing ain’t it how we made it and didn’t fake it
Life’s a disguise, the truth is butt naked
Used to be a time I’d see it and not say it
Now I understand that woke folk be playin'” – Goonies vs ET
MUSIC: Ryan Bingham Live: Have found myself listening to this album more and more doing work outside. Bingham’s voice has a twinge of Steve Earle ( which is cool), and his band really goes hard throughout this live recording, that is fittingly from Texas.
“I could make some friends down at the courthouse
Get bailed out and go on welfare
Id rather lay down in a pine box
Then to sell my heart to a fucking wasteland” – Depression
“For all of your suffering
No one gives a good goddamn
It’s all about the money, son
We doubt you understand” – My Diamond is Too Rough
Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Brian Koppelman, who created “Rounders”, “Oceans 13” and “Billions.” Shane always does a great job with these podcasts, but this one stood out.
“All of us go through periods of time where we are going after the more thin pleasures than the thicker, deeper, richer pleasures. So you can’t hold yourself out to a standard that’s impossible to achieve, either.”
Book: Mastery by Robert Greene.
“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them — those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.”
“It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.”
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